JULY 10, 2025

• PromptCraft: Two-Futures Prompt; Side-Hustle Blueprint; Instant Brand-Kit Generator
• Are You Using AI or Hiding Behind It?​
• THE HEADLINES
• Tool Spotlight: Macaly Evolves Into All-In-One Creator Platform

Two-Futures Prompt; Side-Hustle Blueprint; Instant Brand-Kit Generator, and Much More!

• ​Simulate Two Futures Prompt – A Redditor shares a “future-simulator” prompt that asks clarifying questions, then narrates parallel five-year life paths (comfort-vs-risk) and delivers a side-by-side feelings-first comparison to ease tough decisions. Reddit​
• ​Win the Golden Spatula Lesson – Flux-Form’s video + prompt turns your kitchen into a reality-show arena, querying pantry items and plating style, then spitting competition-ready recipes, intimidation tactics and backup plans. Reddit​
• ​Instant Brand-Kit Generator – A free prompt produces five business names, taglines, AI-ready logo prompts and matching domains in under a minute—ideal for founders who need a full identity fast. Reddit​
• ​Make Essays Sound Like a Student – Community-shared style template strips AI clichés, shortens sentences and injects casual wording so generated papers pass the “freshman voice” sniff test. Reddit​
• ​Side-Hustle Blueprint Prompt – Feed skills, time and personality; ChatGPT returns five validated hustle ideas, monetization channels and weekly timelines, helping users move from fuzzy concept to revenue plan. Reddit​

Are You Using AI or Hiding Behind It?

It took a Microsoft study to help me realize something I’d been ignoring: the problem wasn’t the AI—it was me.

I’d gotten lazy. I was letting AI run the whole show, amazed by how easily it could knock out a tweet or summarize an article. But when I asked it to do more—write something deep, reflective, human—it stumbled. And instead of wondering what I could do better, I got frustrated.

Why couldn’t it write a book the way it wrote a press release?

Eventually, I had to admit I wasn’t doing my part. I was glossing over its weaknesses, accepting surface-level results, and calling it “good enough.” I was outsourcing my thinking. And that’s not on the machine. That’s on me.

So I changed tactics. I asked the AI to question me.

Turns out, there’s a name for that approach: the Socratic Method.

Socrates used questions, not answers, to spark deeper thought. He didn’t lecture; he interrogated. And he believed that real understanding didn’t come from being told what’s true. It came from having to defend what you believe.

That’s the spirit behind Inverse Prompting.

A good AI question isn’t a yes-or-no. It’s not “Do you want this in bullet points?” A good question makes you stop. Think. Explain. Rethink. And the best ones line up with the core skills of critical thinking: observing, analyzing, interpreting, evaluating, and explaining.

When I get a good question from AI, it doesn’t just help the work; it helps me. I think more clearly. I find gaps in my logic. I pull insights from places I hadn’t looked.

​WHAT THE BEST PROMPTS DO​

Macaly Evolves Into All-In-One Creator Platform

​Macaly sprang out of its May 22 Product Hunt debut with a clear promise: describe an app or site and watch it appear, no code or design chops required.

That pitch landed it the #2 Product of the Day slot and a wave of early converts; within three weeks, the team was already writing blog posts about jumping “from zero to $4 k MRR” on the back of their so-called “vibe coding” assistant.

Since then, the Prague-based builders have been quiet in public because they’ve been shipping in private.

Macaly now lets you buy and connect custom domains inside the editor, scrape copy from any website, drop in a screenshot so the agent can spot layout bugs, and even run an automated code review that patches security risks before you hit publish. Under the hood, they’ve swapped their LLM to Claude Sonnet 4 for snappier, more reliable generations, a move the founders celebrated on X last month.

Throw in built-in image editing, Pexels search, and a self-healing “auto-fix” that patches broken builds on the fly, and Macaly is edging from AI site generator toward full creative platform—handy for marketers and solo founders who want production-ready results without bouncing between ten different tools.

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